I love working with others to build cool, interesting, meaningful things.

I designed and built my first web site on GeoCities when I was 12, and I've been hooked ever since.

I've taken my passion for web/interaction design & front-end development into the console video game industry, and into mobile apps / games as well.

I love seeing projects come to life, and turning small ideas and sketches into full-fledged web / interactive / software products.

I spent almost a decade working with the talented folks at Slack, attempting to change the fundamental nature of work, and people's relationship with it.

Today, I’m working at Notion, where I help build beautiful tools to transform people’s relationship with the software they use for their life’s work.

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I've never been able to choose between art and code.

Thankfully, I've never had to. I thrive when I'm working at the intersection of design and engineering teams, can switch between creative tools and code editors and am able to combine design optimism with engineering pragmatism.

I've worked in small web agencies, award-winning mobile startups and tech giants like Electronic Arts and Microsoft.

In this time, I've been extremely fortunate to have met, worked with and learned from extraordinary individuals. They've pushed me creatively, technically and intellectually.

Design Strategy is the future of business and innovation

I've rounded out my engineering and design background with an MBA in Design Strategy, an unconventional graduate business degree offered in SF with a strong focus on product, service and business model innovation.

I am becoming more and more interested in the convergence of user-centered design thinking, strategic foresight, leadership and business operations, and how they relate to innovation and innovation processes in organizations.

Instagram

I like taking landscape shots with my phone. No food pics or selfies here, promise: @fayaza

Clean, cozy and familiar, with subtle but intentional flair everywhere you look. Copenhagen was a treat.
#beautiful #copenhagen #waterways #denmark #design

Quick stop in Brussels before we move on. Fond childhood memories of this place. Uncle’s house up the street was our home base. I remember my cousin and I trying to fish in these ponds. We never caught a thing. 🎣
#ixelles #pond #brussels #bel

An amazing couple of days with the family at the north sea beaches of Oostende and Dunkirk.
#belgium #beach #dunkirk #oostende #vacation

Bay blues.
#sanfrancisco #bayarea #westcoast #beautiful #california

Epic day on the mountain with @kriskereluk @drc12 @mikeworboys @carolinereimer @digicock
#skiing #snowboarding #whistler #blackcomb #mountain #beautiful #britishcolumbia

Tweets

I use twitter once in a while too: @fayaza

RT @SlackHQ: It’s a milestone day for us, but also a day of thinking about work. About ours, and yours, how grateful we are that… https://t.co/INilaA9U9V
Jun 20, 2019, 11:55 AM
RT @merci: Really proud to have helped build Slack with so many humble, smart, creative, empathetic people. Especially thinkin… https://t.co/j28ATDbcXH
Jun 20, 2019, 11:05 AM
Today I followed up on an email I sent ten years ago. Ten. Email sucks.
May 2, 2019, 1:26 AM

About this site

This site serves as both a public showcase and personal archive for some of the most memorable projects I've worked on. Some of these are dated and are 10+ years old.

I've kept them here to document my journey into the fascinating world of front-end design & development, where my greatest passion lies.